Egg-separator.



. H. HBATHERINGTON & C. l0. LONG.

EGG SEPARATOB.

rrLmA'rIo-n H Lnn Mn. 9. 1909.

Patented Nov. 30, 1909.

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` To all 'it may concern.`

UNITED sTATEs PATENT onirica.

HOWARD H. HEATHERINGToN AND conwm o'. LoNe, oF BELLAIRE, omo.

` v EGG-SEPARATOR.

Be it known that we, HOWARD H. HEATH- ERINGTON and Conwnv O. LONG, `citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Bellaire, county of Belmont, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Egg-separators, l of which the following is a specification.y

Thisfinvention relates to. egg separators, and pertains especially to that type adapted for seating upon the top of a glass or goblet.

The object of the present invention is to provide an egg separator .especially adapted for household use wherein the whites and yolksof the eggs may be readily and easily separated.

A further objectof the invention is to so construct the separator of glass,. or any other suitable material, that it will be inexpensive in manufacture, mechanically strong, and of a nature that will enable it n to be easily and quickly cleansed.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as will be more readily understood byreference to the following drawings, in which Figure 1, is a top plan View or the device.

Fig. 2, is a view of the under side. Fi 3,

is a section on the line 3;3 of Fig. 1. 4, is al section on the line 4-'4 of Fig. 1.

In the-form of the invention' as now coney templated the body portion A, of the egg separator consists of a substantially annular member formed, withv an integral handle 1 which projects outwardly therefrom. The inner side ofthe body A, is formed tapering as at 2, conver ing downwardly toward the center as clear y seen in Fig. 3, of the drawings. The other side ofthe body portion A of the device is also tapered as shown 'at 3 vwhich adapts the same to be more readily and securely supportedv upon a vessel into which it is desire to place the white of an egg.

A sha lowv annular cup 4,. of a diameter slightly smaller than the inner' circumference v6, of the 4body portion A is formed in the center of and in spaced relation to the said body portion during the process of -Specication of Letters Patent. Application alcanzaron 9, 1909. serial No. 482,233.

- Patented Nov.

means of a pair of dialnetrically opposite arms 5, 5.

The space between the periphery of the cup 4, and the converging inner walls of the manufacture, cup 4, being supported by body A provides a pair of opposite passages for thev separated whites of` an egg to pass downwardly through.

Referring more particularlyto Fig. 3, and

to the cup 4, therein depicted it will be noted that the pair of semi-circular edges 8, 8, of the said cup are very sharp so that. during the process lof separation the White is cut clean and entirely loose from the yolk.

In'using'the egg separator, the body porg tion A is placed upon a vessel into which the white of `an egg is Vdesired to'be placed, thus disposing lthe cup portion centrall over the vessel. The shell of the egg 1s irst broken in any desired manner then, the entire contents of 'the shell is dropped bodily upon the cup 4, at which time the white of the legg comes into contact with the sharp edges 8, 8, of the said cup and is promptly separated thereby from the yolk. The yolk settles within the cup 4, and causes the white to flow overthe edges 8, 8, and downwardly through the vessel below.

-. The article, it will be noted is of extremely simple construction, and can be made with comparative inexpense in a single'piece of lass. Due to the inclination of the bottom ace 3, of the body, it will be observed that thebody .will ybe accommodated to vessels of varying diameters while still maintaining passage or openings 7, into the toward the center of said body, a cup hay In testimony whereof we aix our signalng a sharpened upper ed e spaced from and tures in presence of two witnesses.

llocatedon the interior o said body so that said ed e lies a roximatel flush with the HOWARD H' HEATHERINGTON' lower ergld of thgiipper inchiied face of said CORWIN 0 LONG' body, and av pair of arms secured to said Witnesses: cup and body and extending across the space H. E. DUNLAP,

l BRUCE MORRIS.

therebetween. 

